Still Curious About Creator +? As the semester has successfully begun, we hope that your students are finding your course content to be engaging, interactive and as impactful as you designed it to be. If you attended the Creator + Sessions during Faculty Staff Planning Week, we learned about how the Creator + creation tools …
Brightspace introduced a new “Work to Do” system widget that can be added onto Course Homepages and is on the Brightspace Main landing page. By default, this widget is viewable by Learners and pulls data from all tools within the Brightspace Learning Environment including: There has been some confusion for students with this widget so …
Faculty have access to thousands of educational and documentary videos from Infobase’s Films on Demand. This is a fantastic resource on campus and you can learn more about it on the Carlyle Campbell Library website. This post focuses specifically on how to easily use this resource in Brightspace. It is possible share with a link …
In the first Ally blog post, we discussed that Ally provides feedback on the accessibility of your course content and guidance on how to fix any identified accessibility issues. In addition, Ally provides instructors with a method for looking at the accessibility status of all of the items in the content areas of the course …
Previously we discussed how to use backwards design to design an entire course. You can apply some backwards design principles when creating your modules as well. Brightspace’s HTML editor and Insert Stuff tool are great for creating modules that provide clarity to your students by keeping the rationale for your decisions easily accessible and in …
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Numerous instructional and course design models depend upon “backwards design” as their prime organizing principle. Many instructors start by deciding which content they want to include in their course, then decide on assessments, then course objectives. Backwards design reverses that process, making content the last thing you would choose. Flower Darby, in her book Small …
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Oftentimes instructors need a simple, repeatable process to help them when they are in the weeds of course design. One such process is Gagne’s Nine Events of Instruction. Robert Gagné was an American educational psychologist best known for developing multiple systems for simplifying and delivering instruction. He pioneered the science of instruction during World War …
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Course Builder is an alternate way to build your course and then make changes to it without using the Content editor in Brightspace. Many who use Course Builder think it provides a cleaner interface in which to see your entire course in a small area of screen space. This is a brief navigation video of …
The continuing rise in the cost of a college degree isn’t new news. Open Educational Resources are one of the tools that can be used to help students and their families. “Open Educational Resources (OER) are any type of educational materials that are in the public domain or introduced with an open license. The nature …
